This is a truly awe-inspiring photo. How many times have we dreamed of scenes such as this since we first saw “Star Wars”? All those “artist’s conceptions” of what sunset on a distant world might look like — and now, this.

Thank you, to all the scientists and people who made this possible. Thank you.

I love the cognitive dissonance that the smaller sun evokes, not to mention the near lack of any of the atmospheric phenomena a sunset on Earth tends to have. I hope that if even I do not get a chance to ever see this sight with my own eyes in my lifetime, someone else might in that span. I plan to be watching man walk on Mars from my Barcalounger on the Moon.

while their eyes pop like four soft grapes being crushed by a giants hand due to the vacuum……

I’m reading Greg Bears “Moving Mars” ATM. great book but ya gotta love how optimistic some of these writers are when it comes to their timelines of humans populating the solar system. According to the book we had a full blown underground city on the Red Planet by 2048.

What I often think about Mars, if you were there walking around on it, is how dark it would be. You’re about twice as far from the sun, so the light per area is only a quarter as bright as on the Earth. High noon on Mars is sunset on Earth. And that’s an awesome picture.